Kiss me Kate

This Cole Porter musical is fun.  Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel star in The Taming of the Shrew, the audience doesn't know that the characters are experiencing the Shakespeare musical itself.  Ann Miller sings as many songs as Kathryn Grayson does.  I know that Kathryn was a great singer but it's nice that Ann's voice is acknowledged. 

Our Dancing Daughters

Joan Crawford made her career with this movie.  She plays a party girl who is actually sincere at heart.  Anita Page steals the man she loves.  Anita Page almost takes the screen from Crawford in this movie as a drunken bad girl.  She pretends to be good in the beginning and I fell for it.  Anita is also very lovely here.  So far it's my favorite role of hers.  Pretty good silent film.

The Bamboo Blonde

Frances Langford is the reason to watch this wartime musical.  She's beautiful and has a lovely voice.  The plot's pretty thing.  She sings more than three numbers.  Anthony Mann directed it and he would go on to greater things.

Stranded

Kay Francis plays an independent role, a woman who works for Traveller's Aid.  George Brent works on the Golden Gate bridge with construction.  There is a tense scene when one of the workers fall.  He wants Kay to quit her job but she won't have that.  I'm a fan of Kay.  It's worth watching but I don't think it's one of her best movies.

Nora Prentiss

A doctor abandons his family for a beautiful singer played by Ann Sheridan.  He stages his own death.  There are consequences to this though as he is always paranoid that he'll meet some one from his past.  I have mixed feelings about the ending.  It fit what the character would do but it was downbeat.  I remember I used to feel that Ann Sheridan was just a want to be Rita Hayworth.  Over the past two years I've discovered how wrong I was.  She was an excellent actress and I want to see even more of her movies.

Blondie of the Follies

Marion Davies' friend Billie Dove is in the Follies.  Billie Dove lets Marion in if she will only ignore her boyfriend Robert Montgomery.  But Marion finds love hard to resist.  I've been watching Marion Davies movies lately and I think that I've watched most of them.  She was an underrated actress.

Try and get me

An unemployed man agrees to become the getaway driver to support his family. His conscience can't handle a killing and he confesses.  A mob tries to get at him in the end.  A newspaper reporter finds that a criminal is not all black and white.  It was a pretty good noir.  I liked how the guy wasn't just a snake that he was just a guy trying to provide for his family.  It's a different twist.